Luis Buenaventura

Head of crypto at @GCashOfficial. Crypto
author, artist, and entrepreneur, hodling since
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[Luis Buenaventura @helloluiis]

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[Luis Buenaventura @helloluis]

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[RYAN SΞAN ADAMS @RyanSAdams]

i will simplify this.

some magic zk tech has emerged that lets ethereum scale L1 to 10k TPS (with gradual increases of 3x per year starting now) WHILE maintaining and even improving ethereum's decentralization.

ethereum is a special snowflake.

ETH = world reserve asset

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

"In the past 50 years, countries like India, the Philippines, the Congo now owe their former colonial masters 189x what they owed in 1970"
~ @gladstein

(Thanks IMF, World Bank)

By providing countries like Bhutan a debt-free path to financial sovereignty, Bitcoin fixes this

[Museigen.io @museigen_io]

BITBULAGA LIVE is back! 🔥

TitoVlogs, Luis Buenaventura, Kuyang Gerome & Crypto4Chun are discussing the latest in Crypto, Web3, Blockchain, and even EVs 😎

📅 July 8 | 🕗 8:30 PM PH Time
📍 Live on https://t.co/eYkavVN76K FB, YouTube & LinkedIn

Surprise IRL event reveal! 👀

[Michael Mislos | BitPinas @mmichaels_21]

Today, Philippine crypto will be remembered in two new phases: pre-CASP and post-CASP.

At @bitpinas, we just completed four dedicated webcasts unpacking the SEC’s final CASP rules, we spoke with lawyers, creators, and ecosystem players to understand what these regulations mean for all of us

I’ve sent direct inquiries to the SEC so the community can be clarified on what’s vague and surface what's clear, as well as communicated their position on the subject, including explaining the rules in laymanize terms whenever possible.

This is our contribution to what may be the most important regulatory conversation in Philippine crypto today. #CryptoPH

Thank you to our guests and resource persons

@farcovelaw @seifer_xiii @sbearsg @kookoocryptotv @whizkidtrader07 @ultm8x @0xManansala @ICESTEAM @helloluis Fermin, John James, @OscarFranklnTan, Atty Paolo Ong

We want to do a final initiative about this and hoping to get the support of the community.

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[Luis Buenaventura @helloluis]

Earlier today, the #GCrypto team visited a couple of @worldnetwork locations in Quezon City, and I have to say ... I got the same chills from peak @AxieInfinity back in 2021.

Let me explain.

Axie singlehandedly brought 1.5M Filipinos into the decentralized crypto universe for the first time, and until that point no other single project had ever come close to that level of mass adoption. I remember being gobsmacked the first few times I saw the size of the local Axie community at our events, and even more impressed when I realized that they were from all walks of life.

But I also remember having serious concerns about Axie's tokenomics and sustainability, which I wrote about extensively at the time. Ultimately, those issues proved to be insurmountable, and well ... we all know how that ended.

So when I say that I felt those same chills while observing the hundreds of people waiting for their Worldcoin scan today, I'm talking about BOTH the good and the bad.

There is no denying that Worldcoin as a crypto onboarding engine is probably unmatched right now in the Philippines. The only thing that I can think of that comes close recently is the Metamax Tron scam from last year, and for obvious reasons, that wasn't something to be celebrated. (If you don't know what that is, consider yourself lucky 📷)

The bottom line is that Filipinos need the free money incentive, and 3,000 pesos in exchange for scanning your retinas is a pretty good deal for 95% of the population. (And don't forget the 600 peso referral reward, which maxes out at 10 refs.)

I can totally see this mechanism onboarding a couple of million Filipinos within the next year ... but at the same time I have very similar worries about its sustainability.
It's superior to Axie in the sense that no one needs to spend any money to get started, and there's no investment angle other than the token itself. (You can't lose money trying to buy overpriced NFTs here.)

But because the token is designed almost entirely to get paid out during these early phases, there's always a tremendous amount of sell pressure keeping the price down. And that sell pressure can only continue growing.

I'm unable to form any long-term conclusions about the World project, and this is not a investment thesis.
But as I was standing there in the middle of Farmers Plaza in Cubao today, I couldn't help but think that I'd been here before. Instead of rows and rows of players competing with their colorful, bouncing NFTs, there were rows and rows of people waiting for their turn to stand in front of shiny steel Orbs ... all of them suddenly aware of the many opportunities that crypto makes possible, for the first time ever.

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[Luis Buenaventura @helloluis]

The S&P500 hit a new ATH a few hours ago ($6204), now up 25% from its early April low. Meanwhile, its memecoin parody SPX6900 is up by 200% over the same period ($1.23).

[Luis Buenaventura @helloluis]

Since 2020, Bhutan has used excess hydropower to quietly mine Bitcoin. Their holdings ($1.3B) are now worth nearly half of their GDP. To put that into perspective, that's roughly a quarter of what PAGCOR will make this year from gross online gaming revenues.

[��丢草 Bad ї ucao @badiucao]

Iran and its Axis of Evil pals so far. 🇮🇷🇨🇳🇷🇺🇰🇵

漫画《来自邪恶轴心的关怀》
中朝俄对于伊朗的被炸的反应
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[Luis Buenaventura @helloluis]

Bitcoin dropping like a bomb

😬

[Luis Buenaventura @helloluis]

Operation Midnight Hammer: 7 stealth bombers, 14 bunker busters, 30 tomahawks, multiple air refuels, 36+ flight hours 😬

[Luis Buenaventura @helloluis]

The economics of war: There were only 20 bunker buster bombs (Massive Ordinance Penetrator) ever built, which the US purchased and improved with a $100M+ budget between 2009-2012. No other country has them in their arsenal. They are considered the largest non-nuclear ordinance available, weigh 30,000 pounds, and can destroy bunkers up to 200ft underground. The US reportedly dropped six (?) of them on Iran earlier today, delivered via B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, which are the world's most expensive aircraft, at $2.1B each.

[Luis Buenaventura @helloluis]

Good lord 😅 I guess Twitter is already where most of the world's trading information (and misinformation) is posted in real-time so why not just do the actual trading in the same app? I guess the @Polymarket partnership deal was just the first step.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

UN Says It Has Lost Track of Iran’s Near-Bomb-Grade Uranium

great, here comes the next Mission Impossible cc: @TomCruise

[Luis Buenaventura @helloluis]

The ever-crafty Justin Sun takes Tron public in the US via reverse-merging with a toy company 🧐 $TRX up 4% so far 🔼

[UseTheBitcoin 🚀🌕 @usethebitcoin]

Check out our exclusive interview with @helloluis, the Head of Cryptocurrencies at GCrypto, on how @gcashofficial is making #crypto more accessible, educational, and secure for millions of Filipinos.

The interview was conducted during the @philippinebc_wk 2025 in Manila.

👉 Check out the full article here: https://t.co/9C2Fgg7Wub

[Luis Buenaventura @helloluis]

This 🇵🇭 #IndependenceDay start building towards your financial freedom by learning about #Bitcoin

[Bitcoin.com News @BitcoinNews]

💡 The Homegrown Hustle: Filipino Exchanges Shaping Web3 at @philippinebc_wk

Asked what tips they’d give to projects entering PH, Country Director Jen Bilango @jen_coins at @coinsph shared:

“Understand the local demo. Median age is 25, internet-native, $40B+ in remittances. Cut fees from 10% to 1%, and you’re putting billions back into the economy.”

Also on stage: @helloluis Head of Crypto at @gcash
Head of Growth/Head of Invest at @mayaofficialph Alvin Wong

[JC De la Torre 🌙 (Pinoy NFT Review I YGG - W3GG) @JCdTorre14]

It’s nice to meet our mentor @MiccoloSolis from YGG and Sir @helloluis (former country manager of YGG) at Philippine Blockchain Week.

As someone affiliated with @YGGPilipinas, so happy to see them both today.

Hopefully I get to see more YGG peeps tomorrow.

#YGGPilipinas